by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
Whether you spent your youth glued to a Gameboy, know a dude who keeps his NES on a pedestal, or have kids digging on Mario for Wii, these pixelated sweatshirts might be worthy of a one-up. The Drew Wise (The Pixel Artist) Collection features eight sweatshirts...
by Cool Mom Team | Holiday Picks
I love finding interesting gifts for camera lovers that aren’t necessarily $500 lenses. The retro camera candles I recently found made me super happy, and now here’s one more gift that’s doing the same–just in time for Mother’s Day....
by Cool Mom Team | Photography
While I’m certainly the type of mom who’d appreciate oh, a cool vintage Polaroid for Mother’s Day, it doesn’t mean I’m not the candle and bath salts type too. Which is why I’m giggling at this Mother’s Day gift idea that...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Websites We Love
Long ago, the only way to communicate with geeks in a galaxy far, far away was to write a letter, stick a stamp on it, decorate the envelope with unicorns and fairies, and mail it. Then we got email. And Twitter. And Facebook. And tumblr. But here’s a way for...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
If you grew up on characters like Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong, the new news from Nintendo will make you want to dig out your flannels, dust off those cowboy boot shoes, and pause the Friends marathon while you get your hands on some of these new games. Nintendo just...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
No, the Samsung Galaxy isn’t walking away from the 21st century touch screen. At least, not on the screen. How great are these Samsung Galaxy rotary phone cases? Available at photographer Kim DeGooyer’s Semi Sweet Studios shop on Etsy, I love that...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Random Coolness
Ah, the 1980s. Video games like Donkey Kong were new and exciting… and dominated by dudes. The only women around were damsels in distress, waiting to be saved. That is, until one little girl’s dad got involved. Three-year-old Ellis had played as Princess...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
Perhaps at some point, you will be sitting around, wondering what the heck you get for the guy who has everything, including all three major gaming systems, two drawers full of controllers, and an ancient copy of Madden Football for Amiga that he just can’t part...
by Cool Mom Team | Life and Home
Oh Fanimation, where have you been all my life? Well, not like I’m thinking about cranking up the fans around the house just yet, but soon! And when I do, this is what I want on my windowsill doing the job. The portable fans from Fanimation are blowing me away....
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
We recently highlighted some of the best over-the-ear headphones for all that new tech you’re going to be wanting to tune into after the holidays. Well it turns out that after having seen, oh, 6,000 (roughly) over-ear headphones at the 2013 CES show and not...